Music and science-fiction October 15, 2007
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Brainteasers:
What novel refers to a song by John Dowland in its title?
What composer wrote an opera based on a work by Jules Verne?
Home-made chocolate-chip cookies to the first correct answers.
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PKD’s Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.
2. Correct! for a free choco-chip cookie! now, how about the opera?
Which opera?
Gavin Bryars’ wrote an opera based on Jules Verne’s novella Dr. Ox’s Experiment, and George Aperghis wrote, Pandaemonium, 1973.
and there is at least one more….
Jacques Offenbach’s adaptation of Verne’s Le Voyage dans la lune?
However, on a technicality, I think I deserve the cookie! Your brain teaser asked for what composer… I provided two to start, unless you were searching for a specific answer, maybe?